Roger Federer and Andy Murray both shrugged off the rust of enforced layoffs with second-round victories at the ATP event in Indian Wells on Saturday.
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/ 2 February 2009
The good news for Roger Federer is that he may still achieve his life’s dream of winning more grand slam titles than any other man.
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/ 1 February 2009
Rafa Nadal ground Roger Federer’s dreams of a record-equalling 14th grand slam singles crown into dust on Sunday.
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/ 31 January 2009
Spain’s Rafael Nadal named Roger Federer as clear favourite for their Australian Open final after the top seed’s epic semi with Fernando Verdasco.
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/ 30 January 2009
Roger Federer says he can never be called tennis’s best despite a return to form by moving within one match of equalling the the Grand Slam record.
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/ 27 January 2009
Novak Djokovic’s hopes for a second straight Australian Open title ended under a broiling sun on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2009
Swiss second seed Roger Federer demolished old rival Marat Safin in fearsome style at the Australian Open on Friday.
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/ 19 January 2009
Roger Federer made heavy weather of little-known Andreas Seppi at the Australian Open Monday before joining Jelena Jankovic in the second round.
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/ 18 January 2009
Rafael Nadal swiped his top ranking and his Wimbledon crown, but Roger Federer is still the man to beat when the Australian Open kicks off on Monday.
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/ 17 January 2009
Roger Federer heads into next week’s Australian Open in devastating form after crushing Stan Wawrinka 6-1, 6-3 on Saturday to win the Kooyong Classic.
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/ 15 January 2009
This year Roger Federer comes to the Australian Open with a few questions to answer — the one is can he regain number-one ranking?
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/ 13 January 2009
A year after withdrawing from the Kooyong Classic with a mystery virus, Roger Federer returned on Tuesday and declared himself fit and ready.
Former world number one Roger Federer believes he can dominate men’s tennis again.
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/ 16 December 2008
In Wimbledon’s murky gloom on a Sunday in July, men’s tennis hailed Spanish king Rafael Nadal.
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/ 11 November 2008
Top seed Roger Federer remained undaunted despite a shock defeat that put his bid for a Masters Cup hat-trick in serious jeopardy.
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/ 20 September 2008
World number two Roger Federer recovered from a shaky start to see off Kristof Vliegen and hand Switzerland a 2-0 lead over Belgium on Friday.
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/ 12 September 2008
If it were up to his peers, there would be no question that Roger Federer should be regarded as the best player ever.
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/ 9 September 2008
After Roger Federer proved that reports of his demise as a Grand Slam champion were greatly exaggerated, the Swiss celebrated winning the US Open.
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/ 8 September 2008
Tennis history will be made on Monday in the US Open men’s final, but whether a familiar face or shocking upstart wins remains to be seen.
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/ 7 September 2008
Forgive Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic if this US Open is one grand-slam event he would like to forget.
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/ 5 September 2008
Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick put in a show-stopping performance at the US Open on Thursday night but only the fired up Serbian was left standing.
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/ 3 September 2008
The iron will of Roger Federer and the burning desire of Novak Djokovic carried them into the quarterfinals of the US Open on Tuesday.
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/ 1 September 2008
Roger Federer leapt into the fourth round and Jelena Jankovic zoomed in on a maiden Grand Slam crown at the US Open on Sunday.
A drizzly Flushing Meadows proved an inhospitable place for former champions Svetlana Kuznetsova and Lindsay Davenport on Friday.
His Wimbledon reign and number-one ranking surrendered, Roger Federer has one trump card left in his competition with Rafael Nadal.
Spain’s Rafael Nadal has replaced Roger Federer as the new world number one in tennis rankings released on Monday.
Roger Federer’s troubled season took another turn for the worse when he was sent crashing out of the Olympic Games in a shock quarterfinal defeat.
Top seed Roger Federer avenged his Athens 2004 humiliation with a convincing win over Tomas Berdych as he remained on course for an Olympic final.
China’s Li Na produced a shock defeat of Svetlana Kuznetsova as the Olympic tennis tournament produced a catalogue of upsets on Monday.
Rafael Nadal is aiming to add Olympic glitter to his trophy room, which already brims with the laurels of 30 titles.
Rafael Nadal marked a changing of the guard in tennis on Friday with a quarterfinal victory at the Cincinnati Masters.
Last year, Roger Federer gave Rafael Nadal a ride from the Canadian Masters in his private jet. There will be no such cosiness this time.